Chechnya 'Gay Purge': Rsia Reportedly Invtigatg | Time

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Sce 2013, Rsia's so-lled gay propaganda law has been ed to harass LGBT people, activists, and anizatns. Now, parliament is preparg an even harsher versn, and the LGBT muny is warng of loomg persecutns and vlence.

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RSIA IS REPORTEDLY INVTIGATG AN ALLEGED GAY PURGE CHECHNYA

It has been almost a sce the reprsive laws on “foreign agents” (2012) and “gay propaganda” (2013) were adopted. At the time of their adoptn, fenrs of the rights of LGBTI+ people were at the foreont of Rsia’s human rights movement and beme one of the first targets of state persecutn. Wh the crease * russia gay persecution *

It has been almost a sce the reprsive laws on “foreign agents” (2012) and “gay propaganda” (2013) were adopted.

Wh the crease polil reprsns me an crease homophobia propagated by the thori.

‘THEY STARVE YOU. THEY SHOCK YOU’: INSI THE ANTI-GAY POGROM CHECHNYA

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In 2013, as preparatns for the “gay propaganda” law were unrway, Levada Center soclogist Aleksey Levison wrote the followg about the rults of a poll that intified a high level of homophobia Rsian society:.

Homophobia always go hand hand wh fascism.

And when we speak about sexual eedom, this is a polil qutn, which is where polics ultimately we are evacuatg gay Chechens, when we say that the Chechen ernment mted crim agast humany and the Rsia feral ernment vered this up for them, are we not engaged polil activy? They save Rsian cizens – homosexual, bisexual, transgenr, but still Rsian cizens – and they sudnly end up foreign I had wanted to get rid of foreign fancg, I would probably have done that back when all this was startg.

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